March 1, 2012

1908 Leap Year Cartoon

This cartoon is from 1908.


This guy is freaking out because he's afraid his (totally hot) girlfriend is going to propose to him on February 29.

Slate has a fun/strange/disturbing retrospective of old time-y Leap Year cartoons here aptly titled "Crazy Old Postcards Showing Women Proposing to Men on Leap Year."

(Note: they're calling it Leap Year too... isn't that what we all used to call it, until people started saying "Leap Day" this year??)

2 comments:

  1. I like the one with the demon redhead proposing to an entire roomful of men including the waiter.

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  2. That *is* new, right? No one was saying "leap day" until this year, right! I knew it!

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